You forgot one important item....the liberals won the election! And elections have consequences. Hussein won White House, Demorats gained seats in Senate and House. Less republicans voted in 2012 than in 2008. Now we have to live with the consequences.

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posted on 02/01/2013 1:29:10 AM PST
by entropy12
(The republic is doomed when people figure out they can get free stuff by voting democrats)

Praise be to Obama, my paycheck is $90 less than it was a month ago due to SS deduction, and my retirement pension is also $90 less than it was a month ago due to increased health care costs. That’s $2100 a year less. I live alone, no dependents.

If people have been following the story line of the ABC series “Scandal”, one of the plots was the substitution of preprogrammed chips, intended to register the tally of votes electronically while providing a printout to the voter, that declared an extraordinarily high count for one candidate over the other. The printout registered what the voter had actually had selected, while the tally was skewed for a different candidate.

One suspects a similar fraud took place in a number of districts where ordinarily, Republicans would be fully competitive, but some mysteriously large margins were recorded that did not square with numbers of each bloc of voters.

Unless such fraud is detected and widely exposed, this has just become the new normal for elections.

But of course, that is just silly, and “couldn’t happen” here.

No conspiracy. Because if conspiracy does not exist everywhere, it exists nowhere.

Oh, on Plan B - like yeah, the GOP could work very, very hard to win control of the Senate and increase their hold on the House.

Instead, the GOP has long been a toothless, not-even paper anything. It is far less than a herd of cats and "wicked awesome" in need of a serious culling.

Effective counters to divide-and-conquer tactics should have been learned on the playground. For the GOP - not.

The joy of internecine self-destruction is a very old and practiced GOP art form. They cannot even "buy" a clue.

To govern is not to be liked. Tough - get over it.

Stall, deny, delay, ... and wait for the next time is just stupid.

An idea - today, freeze all government spending at their current levels. Period. No if's or and's or but's. Next, moving forward, in quarterly increments, reduce spending by 1% each quarter, and continue until there is a "real" (versus "smoke-and-mirrors") balanced budget.

Don’t bash Obama! He moved me into the 400,000+ income range. I thought I earned less than 40,000 so I was safe when he promised no new taxes on the “middle” class. After looking at the withholding on my last paychecks, I realize that I must have made it above middle class. I am so thankful that I made it into the “I got mine” club!

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posted on 02/01/2013 3:53:14 AM PST
by 2nd Amendment
(Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)

Unless you have a better way of funding social security, or getting rid of it, your comment is illogical. The reduction of the patroll tax in the first place, was assinine. The only reason Obama pushed for it, was because a reduction in the income tax would not have benefitted the 47% that don't pay federal taxes. By reducing the payroll tax, it directly benefitted the 47% and after the first $100k+, it stopped benefitting "the rich".

The payroll tax reduction was stupid, as it accelerated the bankruptcy of social security. To now claim that it is now a negative to restore the payroll tax is economic stupidity.

I realize the restoration of the 2% FICA tax is technically an increase. However, it was increased back to it’s original contribution level. It should never have been reduced in the first place.

I have been out of the work force now for 7 years. In my previous 52 years of contribution to Social Security, I do not recall one time where the contribution was suspended, or reduced.

The resumption of the 2% should not have been a surprise to anyone. When it was enacted, it was part of a stimulus plan, and was not intended to be a permanent cut.

Taxes are going to continue to increase. Obamacare is just the beginning. We are now faced with unions complaining about the increased cost to their benefit plans and their solution is to petition the government for relief. That relief will happen, as the Democrats need a wedge for the 2014 mid terms, and Obama can ill afford the upset the unions. The rest of us will have to pay for the union’s reduced Obamacare cost.

Fewer jobs translate into lower government tax revenues. The remaining work force will have to make up that difference. The downward spiral has been occurring for some time now, and will only continue at a faster pace.

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